CNN anchor Jake Tapper got his own “Saturday Night Live” skit last week. In a “Fatal Attraction”-style scene, the fierce newsman is seduced by Kellyanne Conway, the White House aide he had banned from his show for lying. In the Trump age, when the commander-in-chief sets his Saturday schedule around the show, being lampooned by…
The question was a softball, lobbed slow over the plate. President Trump whiffed. Hard. “Forty-eight bomb threats have been made against Jewish centers all across the country in the last couple of weeks,” a reporter from an Orthodox magazine said. “There are people who are committing anti-Semitic acts, or are threatening to —” Trump interrupted….
Eight refugee families, still in limbo. That is the situation Chicago synagogues are dealing with after having volunteered to sponsor them—about 35 people in all—since President Donald Trump issued his executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim majority countries from entering the United States. Despite a February 3 court order temporarily lifting the ban, and…
A reporter for a small ultra-Orthodox publication’s dream turned into a nightmare today when President Trump called on him during a rare solo press conference — and then slammed him. The reporter, Jake Turx, had long wanted to participate in such a high-level event, even publicly begging spokesman Sean Spicer to call on him. He…
On the night of November 8, Karen Goldberg sat in her home in Cleveland, watching the 2016 election coverage. As votes trickled in and patches of red swept across the electoral map, Goldberg was forced to accept that Donald Trump was going to become the next president of the United States. Goldberg cried. She tried…
As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said he was open to new ideas that would bring Middle East peace. With that, he opened the door to a whole new maze of complexity and risk. By uttering the phrase “one-state” – rather than a two-state solution…
An off-the-cuff comment from President Trump on Israel has set off a flurry of cautious excitement from conservative commentators. During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Trump said he was “looking” at both one-state and two-state solutions. “I like the one that both parties like,” he added. “I can live…
The number of radical groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row, fueled by the rise of President Trump, according to an annual report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Notably, white nationalism is on the rise. “2016 was an unprecedented year for hate,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at…
Did President Trump just toss decades of American policy on the Middle East in the trash — or was Donald just being the Donald? A seemingly off-the-cuff comment by the new president could mean the world for Israelis and Palestinians, or just represent an easy-breezy can-do approach to the conflict from a billionaire who prides…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – One state! Flexibility! Two states! Hold back on settlements! Stop Iran! When President Donald Trump met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — What a press conference! But wait. In the Age of Trump, every post-event analysis requires a double take: Not so much “did he mean what he said?” – he appears to…
In the battle of the neo-Nazi websites, the Daily Stormer has overtaken Stormfront. Andrew Anglin’s Daily Stormer website is now the “top hate site in America,” according to a detailed post by the Southern Poverty Law Center, published last week. Propelled by Donald Trump’s rise and energized by the so-called “alt-right,” 2016 was an important…
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